10/03/2026 05:09

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Then I was back in a dusty Tijuana street. The “ black book” series: THE BLACKANGEL, THE BLACK CURTAIN, THE BLACK PATH OF FEAR, RENDEZVOUS IN BLACK, THEBRIDE WORE BLACK and (reread many more times) BLACK ALIBI. He blinks, heels into his eyes, the white is dazzling. He’ll make it, thatboy.

A thirty-eight thread whined its beam overhead, and the eight remaining men saw a munitionswheel go up with a deafening roar. Having done it,I now remembered: why had I remembered none of it before? As I drove off down Mentor Avenue, Icame out of the w I felt the tremors and the upheavals, and the fissures started at my feetand ran to the horizon; and the lava boiled up and began to flow. Part of it was money.